Artists

Josh Smith, Dieter Roth

Press release

Opening & Artist Talk with Josh Smith & Dr. Raphael Gygax Thursday, September 24, 6 – 8 pm Galerie Eva Presenhuber is pleased to present Mind Child, a new exhibition featuring works by the New York-based artist Josh Smith. The gallery’s seventh exhibition with Smith brings together paintings from his Destiny series alongside paintings of other subjects, as well as works on paper and artist’s jewelry. Additionally, Smith has curated a selection of works by the late Dieter Roth (1930–1998), which will also be featured in the exhibition. Josh Smith was born in 1976 in Okinawa, Japan (his father was in the military) and, after a number of relocations, grew up mostly in East Tennessee. He has lived in New York since 1998. He has had several solo exhibitions in the United States and abroad at institutions including The Drawing Center, New York, NY, US (2024); Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, DE (2016); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, IT (2015); The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, US (2011); Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, CH (2009); De Hallen Haarlem, Haarlem, NL (2009); and MUMOK, Vienna, AT (2008). Recent group exhibitions include Postcards from the Future, PoMo, Trondheim, NO (2025); Day for Night: New American Realism (in association with the Aïsthi Foundation), Palazzo Barberini, Rome, IT (2024); Motion/New Perspectives, de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL, US (2023 – 2024); Before Tomorrow – Astrup Fearnley Museet 30 Years, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO (2023); Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, DE (2019-20); The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US (2014-15); The Painting Factory: Abstraction after Warhol, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, US (2012); Le Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, FR (2011); ILLUMInations, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT (2011); and The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York, NY, US (2009). His works are held in numerous public collections including the Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR; MUMOK, Vienna, AT; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, US; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US.